Quarriers

Jennifer from Quarriers came to visit us this week and to tell us all about what they do. We gave her the £47 we raised from our Spy Party and she told us that it would go towards helping people with disabilities such as epilepsy and to help families and young adults. We told her that we had researched lots of different local charities, made presentations on them and then voted on which one we would fund raise for.

Starting 2012 with a bang!!

Well everyone, what can we say? We just absolutely LOVE our new and improved Kirklandneuk Primary School! The school is fantastic and the classroom is ‘out of this world’. Most of Room 9 (we have changed room numbers) favourite part of the classroom is our new teaching wall and Smart Board. Miss Lochhead is amazed by it all too! We have been doing lots of exciting things since we started back after Christmas. We learned how to put an unconscious casualty into the recovery position and how to deal with someone who may be bleeding seriously. We enjoyed practising the recovery position with our partners.
We have also had a very special letter delivered to our class from Renfrewshire council which lead us to decide to hold our very own CIRCUS PERFORMANCE with Room 7 and 8! We are all very excited about our circus topic and can’t wait to learn all about it and learn some circus tricks! We have already started learning how to juggle and have started creating some gymnastics routines. During our Numeracy across the Curriculum lessons, we have been looking at symmetry in the circus and made our own symmetrical clowns and big tops- have a look!

Christmas around the world

Last term we were learning all about Christmas around the world. We got lots of information from many sources e.g. Miss Lochhead’s cousin in Australia sent us an e-mail, Maja’s mum came in to tell us all about Christmas in Poland and Grant brought in information about Japan that his uncle gave him! Thank you to all who helped us with our learning. We took all of this information, and information from fact sheets, to create our own fact files in our co-operative learning groups. We made such a good job of these that Miss Lochhead got us to teach each other about our chosen country. Have a look below at some pictures. After Maja’s mum taught us lots of Polish facts we made our friends Christmas wishes which is a tradition in Poland. We had to make sure that these were unselfish and not about material things. We had lots of joy giving and receiving our wishes.